Dedicated scientists are working hard to close the gaps, fix the errors and finally complete the human genome sequence. Elie Dolgin looks at how close they are.
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Elie Dolgin is assistant news editor for Nature Medicine in New York.
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Dolgin, E. Human genomics: The genome finishers. Nature 462, 843–845 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462843a
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